Appointments

Contour Capital makes senior hire

Specialist property lender and investor Contour Capital has appointed Gordon Mackie as a director. ...

Bibby hires East Midlands corporate manager

Bibby Financial Services has appointed Barry Lee as corporate manager in the East Midlands. Lee...

Ian Clarke joins TMA

Ian Clarke is to join TMA as a key account manager, tasked with helping support...

Ageas makes key partner hire

Ageas by appointed Gareth Robb as broker account executive. He is tasked with helping develop...

Brightstar expands specialist first charge team

Brightstar Finance has recruited Kevin Ward to join the specialist first charge and buy-to-let...

Shawbrook hires new BDM in Scotland

Shawbrook Bank has appointed Peter McDermid as the new business development manager (BDM) for...

Target Group makes senior hire

Financial services outsourcing and software provider Target Group has announced the appointment of Mark...

New head of mortgages at Nationwide

The Nationwide Building Society has announced that Tracie Pearce, the mutual's head of savings,...

The Leeds hires new build specialist

The Leeds Building Society has appointed a new corporate account manager specialising in the...

Affirmative expands its operation

Short-term finance provider Affirmative Finance has appointed Gareth Broome to its sales team. Broome,...

Bibby bolsters Scottish operation

Bibby Financial Services has strengthened its Inverness, Stirlingshire and Perthshire team with the appointment of...

New BDM for 1st Stop Group

1st Stop Group has appointed a new business development manager, Laura Walters.  She joined 1st Stop...

Damien Druce joins Crystal Mortgages

Crystal Mortgages has appointed Damien Druce as head of distribution and development to grow...

United Trust Bank hires head of sales

United Trust Bank has appointed Keith Sangwin as head of sales for its asset...

COMMENT

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

Latest news

FCA to join Bristol summit as later life lending sector weighs market study

The Financial Conduct Authority will join advisers, lenders and industry figures in Bristol next...

Targeted deposit scheme could help one million first-time buyers onto housing ladder

A new government-backed deposit scheme could provide a route onto the housing ladder for...

Hodge raises holiday let lending limits with 80% LTV move

Hodge Bank has widened its holiday let criteria, increasing maximum loan-to-value to 80% and...

Family BS expands fixed rate range across core lending lines

Family Building Society has launched a refreshed range of fixed rate products spanning owner-occupier...

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